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All simply about eBayFed up with eBay?
by:
Richard Grady
Copyright 2005 Richard Grady
For many a people, their 1st experience of working online involves commerce products on eBay. This was how I got started back in 1998 and I cognize incalculable different folk that have done the same.
However, it is important to remember that eBay is not the 'be all and end all' - there is a more bigger online earth out there. My reason for mentioning this is that I have spoken to three folk this week who each do a decent full or part-time financial gain
on eBay but who are fed up with it and looking to come in different directions.
Having sold-out
on eBay myself, I can understand why sellers do get tired/bored/frustrated with the auction site - it is extremely
competitive and it takes an dumbfounding figure of hard activity to succeed. In addition, it is commonly the case that the more eminent you become, the harder you have to work. Listing auctions, handling consumer
enquiries, packing, shipping, sourcing/buying stock, keeping up with feedback, observance the competition - commerce on eBay is a tough job and it is no wonder that after working in this way for a few years, many a folk will they were back in the land of the employed!!
Don't get me wrong, there is nice money to be ready-made on eBay for anyone willing to put the effort in and many a folk enjoy commercialism on this brobdingnagian auction site. But it isn't for everyone.
Having spoken to many
eBay sellers in the past, it seems to me that of the ones that don't enjoy working on eBay, the particular task that they enjoy the least is the packing and shipping of products. Funny enough, this is exactly the bit of commercialism that I grew to dislike too.
I (and the sellers I have spoken to) didn't have a problem with creating sales descriptions, dealing with emails, aggregation payment (naturally!) and the different body
tasks involved in running an online business. But wrapping things up and taking them to the post office is thing
all some and for me and many a others that's wherever
it all started to fall apart :-)
As I aforementioned at the beginning of this article, if you are deed fed up of doing the eBay 'thing' or if you simply don't fancy the idea to start with, there is a wealth of alternative opportunities accessible online. My own resolution was to get rid of the one aspect of eBay commercialism that I didn't enjoy - the packing and shipping - and start to produce and sell digital products which could be delivered to the consumer
automatically. I still have to write sales pages and build websites, I still have to deal with emails etc but I don't have to handle any physical products (neither do I have to deal with payment collection because that too can be handled mechanically
by software).
Of course my products are really relevant to eBay sellers and indeed, there are many
individuals and companies out there that have ready-made a fortune off the back of eBay without ever having sold-out
a single product on the auction site. I am sure that there are many
different problems that eBay users have that could be resolved
with a new piece of code or a particular service and if the idea takes off, there are 135 million registered users on eBay to market to!
eBay provides a extraordinary possibility for hundreds of thousands of folk but it isn't for everyone and if you find yourself frustrated/bored with the same old routine everyday, start to look for thing
outside of the eBay world.
Just simply about the author:
Richard Grady has been serving ordinary folk earn online since 1998. He writes a free account which is publicised every two weeks. To subscribe (and claim your free gifts), visit: http://www.thetraderonline.com/newsletter.html
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